Katy’s Weblog
Our family listened to the audio of The Hunger Games on our road trip to Arizona over Christmas holiday. We were so engrossed with the story that we looked forward to getting back into the car whenever we can!
When we came home, we read, on our own, the two sequels, Catching Fire and Mockingjay.…
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” ~ C. S. Lewis
When my children first started to be independent and have plans of their own, I felt a sense of sadness whenever two and especially when all three would be out, leaving no kids at home. It’s not that I have nothing to do, I have lots to do, but there was a sense of loss, the passing of a season of life.
God has called me to leave a church that I didn’t want to leave, to take on a job that I never imagined I would do, and begin a new phase of my life that I wasn’t expecting.
Two years ago, I started praying about what I would do when my youngest child goes off…
This book is a touching testimony of a woman who unknowingly married a high ranking member of the Mafia.
Michael Franzese and Camille Garcia met while she was a dancer in a movie he was producing. Raised by a very devoted Christian mother, Cammy’s faith in God was made real to her through the trials…
I read somewhere, I wish I remember where, that asked a poignant question: When we go to heaven and have all the blessings of what we usually think heaven is – all the food we want, reunion with friends and family, streets of gold, no war, no pain, no tears…and Jesus wasn’t there, would we be happy?
From Sean McDowell:
Many kids leave the church because they never built healthy relationships with their parents or other Christian adults. If we want to teach the biblical worldview effectively, we must first help kids get emotionally healthy.
This is why I deeply believe in mentoring. Jesus was a mentor. My hope is that mentoring…
I just finished reading An Amish Wedding by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, and Kelly Long. It was an easy read and an entertaining fiction, good for a heartwarming distraction, especially on a rainy day.
Three short stories set in an Amish community, the book tells the sweet stories of three couples. Along with the romance and conflict, there were lessons of faith woven throughout.
There’s a shoe repair shop in our little city of 30,000. How many people would need their shoes repaired?
I went in there to have my $40 pair of shoes repaired. The cost of repairing the sole is $16. It’s hardly worth it for me, and hardly worth it for him. It made me wish my shoes were more expensive to have the repair even make sense. But I decided to have it done any way.
“Lady, can you spare a quarter?”
I said no and turned away. Then I felt a pang of guilt -what if she just had some bad luck and need a helping hand?
Not so. 10 min. later the same lady was in line in front of me at the market, paying for a bottle of cheap wine with $2.50 in quarters.
